oh no- updated some drivers - to HD's turned unallocated !

rozroz · 03 Dec 2010

hello again in trouble land!
after my bios & fan trouble, i took the chance of letting driver genius update the drivers. it found some realtec, nvidia and some more chip and intel stuff to update.
did a system restore.
now suddenly windows cant recognize to HD's on the system.
i went to manage- and it shows them as unallocated !!!
and now i it tells me there's no system restore point!

*i won't do a thing until you advise me !

please tell me there's no harm!

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rozroz · 03 Dec 2010

please, anyone? i'm about to take my special occasion clonex...

* these two HD's are IDE - the system drive is sata..
tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.
i cannot find any reason for them to be suddenly erased due to some driver updates,
so i'm still trying to be optimistic.
however, this driver genius "told" me it's doing a restore point - but windows claims there's none. what the hell happened?? couldn't find any help searching here or googling.
and no, i didn't back up my drivers.

brianzion · 03 Dec 2010

hi dont panic this happened after you updated drivers?

brianzion · 03 Dec 2010

have you data on the two drives? you may have lost it if so Right click the unpartitioned spaces and hit create partition.
It will partition, format, and assign a drive letter.

rozroz · 03 Dec 2010

brianzion said:

hi dont panic this happened after you updated drivers?

yes, after that.
after the bios update they were fine

rozroz · 03 Dec 2010

ok i'm calm and ready for action

fseal · 03 Dec 2010

Try starting windows in safe mode and see if the drives become visible again....

Purkinje · 03 Dec 2010

rozroz said:

tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.

I would try going to the manufacturer's website and getting the correct driver there. That way, you can be sure that you are using the correct driver. It's possible that Driver Genius installed the incorrect driver updates.

When you install the new drivers, please make sure to uninstall the current, broken drivers for those drives before installing the drivers from the manufacturer's website.

rozroz · 03 Dec 2010

Purkinje said:

rozroz said:

tried disconnecting them and let windows recognize them again but it's the same.

I would try going to the manufacturer's website and getting the correct driver there. That way, you can be sure that you are using the correct driver. It's possible that Driver Genius installed the incorrect driver updates.

When you install the new drivers, please make sure to uninstall the current, broken drivers for those drives before installing the drivers from the manufacturer's website.

it's a mess, 17 drivers. first i need to know which one is responsible..

brianzion · 03 Dec 2010

when you updated the bios everything was ok then? its since you updated the drives then tried a system restore? have you the windows disk or a recovery disk?